Beyond the whitewashed plank fences grazed the most expensive horseflesh I'd ever set eyes on. |
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In such glorious surroundings, a slice of dry bread and a plank would have sufficed. |
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Then Luke built our four-man skateboard by putting trucks on the bottom of a plank of plywood. |
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The two losers got to follow in the footsteps of their fellow compatriots by walking the plank. |
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Just because you have a fancy compressor doesn't mean you have to make the snare sound like a plank of wood slapping an old suitcase. |
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An 1895 trap carriage and a Conestoga wagon on a short stretch of plank road bracket a homemade airplane. |
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Both feature high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, period fireplaces and wide plank wooden flooring. |
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The ceiling beams and the wide-board pine plank flooring are left intact, giving a rustic mood to the room. |
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To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row. |
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This stance is doubly significant, since a key plank in Day's political program is federal government support for religious schools. |
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Along with the KMT, it has made the buildup of the military a central plank of its election platform. |
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Every major political party had the end of the occupation as a central plank of their campaign. |
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I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon. |
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When we'd beaten the rugs, scoured the plank floors, and polished the mopboards, Aunt Helga declared that it was time to rest. |
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Tourists use plank roads to get to the mountain top, walking through natural forests. |
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He and Ras broke loose a plank off the boat and dropped it into the briny below. |
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When the mysterious visitor walks through the door, he hits him in the head with the plank of wood. |
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The party was a resounding success, topped off by Nobby Clark walking the plank into Bangor harbour. |
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In the middle of the room, a long plank table stood, an oilcloth covering it. |
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This put intolerable strains on the casework, the string tension trying to pull the wrest plank closer to the soundboard. |
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After you've properly planned your plank flooring, use a straight edge and a permanent marker to mark over the chalked lines. |
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The certainty and reliability of the Word of God was one central plank of the Fellowship. |
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Dad dug some steps down to the swimming hole and dug a plank into the sand for a diving board. |
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The dining room's French fruitwood table, dating from the 1860s, plays off the patina of the original plank floors. |
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Hullo is a rectangular shaped flat wooden plank seater with its four corners fixed to the roof by means of metal clews which can swing. |
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It is hardly possible for one to imagine a kitchen without a rolling pin and plank, a coconut grater or at least a churner. |
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The fundamental plank of the SEP's program is the international unity of the working class. |
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In an earlier epoch, the PT had made the repudiation of the debt a central plank in its campaign platform. |
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This principle is a central plank of European Community policy, and it is becoming increasingly so in international law. |
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Reaching the eighth plank, he pushed, and it swung inwards, revealing a small crevice that he quickly squeezed into. |
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Push-ups strengthen the chest and the triceps and stabilize the core as you hold your body in a plank position. |
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The front plank is one of the main exercises I teach my chiropractic patients for strengthening their core region. |
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He pries off the wheels, affixes them on to a wooden plank, and a homemade skateboard is born. |
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Up until recently I'd been using a wheelchair for dolly shots and a plank of wood for a crane. |
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I wonder if this is just the garboards or if the developments for the other plank are also incorrect. |
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She is the best exponent of British social democracy in her generation, arguing for childcare as the missing plank of the British welfare state. |
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Every plank and rib, deadeye and curb were built according to the detailed plans of Bombigher. |
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The crinkles in the gold leaf highlight the delicate texture of lace, the mottled surface of a pine plank table, or the peeling walls. |
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The classical Greeks placed their paintings in pinakothekai, a word deriving from pinas meaning plank. |
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Perform the plank with your hands, feet or both on an unstable surface such as a gym ball. |
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If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations. |
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I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters. |
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The hope that example will prove contagious is, as I understand it, the central plank of the neo-conservative ideology in Washington. |
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Why one of the best ministers in the government has to walk the plank is not clear. |
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Flogging, branding, keelhauling, locking sailors in chains, walking the plank, and hanging were used in this era. |
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Hidden nailing is where nails are driven into the groove of the plank and covered by the tongue of the next plank and so on. |
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A central plank of the plan was the return of 300,000 Khmer from the Thai border. |
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The employer, notionally, gives the workman an unshaped plank of wood, and receives in return a plank that has been sawn and nailed. |
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Recessed, arched alcoves terminating in solid plank wooden doors were placed about every 10 paces on alternate sides of the corridor. |
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It became the central plank in a nonproliferation regime that helped restrain the pace of global nuclear proliferation. |
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The rumor-mongers may be on to something, even if the president doesn't make his economic advisers walk the plank. |
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Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank. |
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Each sister had their own cell, furnished with a plank bed and straw mattress, a three legged chair and a wooden cross. |
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A plank fifty feet long and eight inches thick could be sawn on both edges in less than five minutes! |
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The main plank in the program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual. |
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Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes. |
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The second plank of the prosecution case is forensic, with claims that drug and explosive residue was discovered on baggage belonging to the men. |
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Call me by that scurvy name one more time, and ye'll be walking the plank, I swear it! |
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This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank. |
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His boot heels scraped against the hardwood floor, eliciting a clipped echo from the plank boards. |
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When I was a gym member I got an instructor to watch me do a plank because I was having trouble. |
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I personally wouldn't spend a bean on Africa and nor would I vote for a party which made it a main plank of its manifesto. |
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That's not necessarily so when footballers walk the plank in a penalty shoot-out. |
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By pulling it, he'd not only cracked the plank in half, he'd unhinged the door itself. |
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Through years of boot soles and Border collie paws the unfinished plank floor has grayed and smoothed to ashen silk. |
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Presumably it was the plank on which the tucker laid the piece of cloth so that it could be inspected carefully and the burls or knots removed. |
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Control of information and propaganda has always been a central plank of war strategy. |
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The corvus was a plank that was hinged at one end to the side of a Roman ship, and that had a heavy spike in the other end. |
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A key plank of the government plan was to replace the country's currency, the sucre, by the US dollar. |
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Light shades are suitable for many furnishing schemes and it is available as country style single plank. |
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By December, the proposal for the next phase should be ready, with a mission to Mars leaving in 2011 expected to be a central plank of the programme. |
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Recourse to the precautionary principle is a central plank of Community policy. |
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The integrated administration and control system is actually the central plank of our present agriculture policy. |
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You don't need to be a vegetarian to love Moscatello's mushroom dish, which currently consists of maitake mushrooms next to a long plank of salsify. |
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Or would you rather emphasise the length of the room with a wide plank with a 2-sided joint? |
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It is not a part of the lane, and all lane measurements end at the point where the tail plank meets the end of the lane. |
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In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs. |
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While feeling concerned for the plank we see in the eye of civil society, let us not forget the one that is in ours. |
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The employment rate target is gradually becoming the central plank in the Employment Strategy. |
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The masseuse applied fragrant medicated oils on the head and body in plentiful measure as one lay on a high wooden plank on the secluded verandah of an open walled courtyard. |
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The plank is then steamed and bent at three corners, and pegged or sewn together with spruce root at the fourth. |
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I've never been able to stay in the plank for more than a few seconds. |
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A central plank of many a municipal program for these slates was to re-establish the 'neighborhood police. |
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A man with a wide plank of wood turned around at the back of the queue for the Homebase cash desk and smacked it into me as I walked past with my little green basket. |
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There was a deep impact mark on the side of the spring plank, and a longitudinal tear on the bottom of the fuel tank. |
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We also went to the bamboo train, an original train composed of two axles, an old engine and a bamboo plank. |
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It was, as the former Home Secretary said, a worthy successor to the 1688 Bill of Rights and a major plank in the Government's constitutional reform programme. |
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This provided an easy landing for the pre-cast plank and was an alternative to welding a wider plate to the bottom of a standard W-shape section. |
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Attempts to replicate Marty McFly's futuristic, floaty fun plank have yielded mixed results. |
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All he could hear was his own breathing and the clatter of his shoes on the rough plank floors as he ran around the tower, shuttering the windows. |
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Lacking any sense of irony, Eldridge made campaign-finance reform a signature plank. |
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Find a low level cross bar at the playground that you can support yourself in a pushup, plank or front support position. |
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But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group. |
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They caused six managers to walk the plank one way or another. |
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At which point the rear legs, which are connected by a narrow plank, caught on a floorboard and snapped. |
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Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia. |
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The plank was much springier than he had imagined, and he found himself doing an awkward hop-skip-and-stumble over its battens as it flexed under his boots. |
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The back was made from a single plank of water-sawn sweet gum. |
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Section for sty partitioning, characterised in that the section comprises a plank with sides and transverse lamellae as internal structure. |
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In other words, reverse engineering, a central plank in Japan's overall industrialization strategy, may also apply to North American-style house manufacture. |
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As part of the eviction process, each week the contestant with the least number of votes is forced to walk the plank for their dramatic final exit from the show. |
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There is mention of only 13 saws in the Kingdom in England, leading us to think that they were probably pit saws that could be used to separate a plank from a log. |
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There was a revolutionary change in road building in 1835, when the first plank road in North America was built east of Toronto. |
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The foot that pushes off, at the start of the jump, must not go past the plank. |
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One triptych consists of an old plank cut into three pieces. |
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With a plastic flotation collar to keep the brine off one's face, one lies like a plank on the surface of the water, staring at the ceiling and thinking great thoughts. |
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A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering. |
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A box is constructed from a single plank into which wedge-shaped cuts, or kerfs, are made where the corners will be. |
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It was for that reason that he had to walk the plank last Wednesday. |
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In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War. |
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From its formation last January, the Alliance made the call for massive cuts in personal income, capital gains, and corporate taxes its central policy plank. |
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There was a loud crunch as the plank split in two down the center, the sharp splinters flying away from the impact point and back towards the man. |
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Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up. |
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It is a measure of the theatre-going public's apathy that we sat quietly in our seats and didn't storm the stage and make everyone walk the plank. |
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It has a lovely rustic feel with plank wooden floors and uncovered fireplaces. |
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It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn. |
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Northup slept on a plank 12 inches wide and 10 feet long, with a stick of wood as his pillow. |
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Beneath a writing desk in the living room, Escobar lifted a plank to reveal a hidden compartment. |
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Transport wagon with spoked wheels, loaded with beer barrels as well as sandbag and wooden plank. |
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He cut a spiral at the end of a plank and added it for a makeshift, but convenient. crosier. |
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To undercut the door jam, lay a piece of scrap flooring on the underlayment and using that as a guide, saw off the bottom the door jam so the plank will fit. |
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Perhaps Ham will dedicate a plank in the replica ark to his bowtied benefactor. |
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The sapwood and the duramen are therefore eliminated by splitting, and then the plank is planed down until no irregularities are left in the wood. |
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The last election proved this to be the case, namely that the main plank of the Tory campaign, Europe, most of the public didn't give a stuff about, relatively speaking. |
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Roland Carmagnole was beaten round the head with a plank of wood, breaking every bone in his face and fracturing his skull twice. |
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Then I saw these two wee eyes peering short-sightedly at me from behind a plank leaning against the wall. |
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Mop heads attached to the wooden plank would sweep across the sea floor and release organisms from the ocean bottom to be caught in the nets. |
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The central plank of France's war against Britain in 1759 was a plan to invade Britain, authored by the French chief minister Duc Choiseul. |
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The depicted ships, most likely represents sewn plank built canoes used for warfare, fishing and trade. |
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Knots in a board or plank are least injurious when they extend through it at right angles to its broadest surface. |
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Another grooved plank is glued on top, and the whole assembly is then cut into individual pencils, which are then varnished or painted. |
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Excavations at sites such as Holne Moor have shown that such huts had an interior plank lining. |
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The super aquatic galleries are very simple and workmanlike, with white walls and plank floors like a ropewalk. |
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Somehow the Scouser hears about this and marches back up the gang plank to confront the captain. |
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Sink each one in below the surface of the plank using a nail punch and hammer. |
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Jodie barely glows through all that make-up, but the plank and curl-up routine should have her viewers breaking into a good sweat. |
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We all jumped from our seats and stood rigid as plank boards. |
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First Duggan defied him, then Rusev smashed Duggan's plank over his knee. |
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So I have dusted off my trusty air guitar and I am heading there with a crowd of equally daft friends for some plank spanking and bad dancing. |
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Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state. |
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The facilities at the parsonage were no more than a plank across a hole in a hut at the rear, with a lower plank for the children. |
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Between each futtock the planks were lapped in normal clinker style and fastened with six iron rivets per plank. |
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The planks were radially hewn so that the grain is approximately at right angles to the surface of the plank. |
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Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. |
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This method would give enough information to rough out the next plank. |
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Child care has been a key plank in the women's rights movement, along with the availability of abortion services and equal pay for work of equal value. |
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The lapstrake type of planking, in which each plank or strake overlaps slightly the one below it, can be seen in an elementary form in some dugouts with plank sides. |
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Whereas Reed suggested that the Party might reword the plank while remaining staunchly pro-life, Bay made it clear that any such attempt would be met with bitter resistance. |
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This weapon is a gun of living room of MARIETTE luxury manufactured for the shooting of precision, the system of aiming with small plank encrusted with gold attests some. |
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Although Lincoln had no objection to the first of these amendments, he was unalterably opposed to the second and indeed to any scheme infringing in the slightest upon the free-soil plank of his party's platform. |
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A man holding a mallet and a flatfish-shaped billhook, possibly a carpenter or sculptor, has his legs crushed beneath a plank or slab whilst a demon cracks his scull open with a chisel. |
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Parapa then fixed a man-sized plank to the hutment wall, so that while his father and brother made love to their wives below, he could stay chastely on the shelf. |
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Medium Density: Provides cushioning protection against repeated shock, comparable to conventional extruded plank, but with a softer surface that fabricates more easily and heat-bonds without skiving. |
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The first plank, called the binding strake, because it tended to bind the hull together, was temporarily clamped into place so its shape could be marked along the top batten. |
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Not included: skull and crossbones flag, treasure map, loot, plank. |
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A harrow may be as simple as a few tree branches or a wooden plank or a log, weighted down with stones or the weight of the operator and pulled across the field by the animals. |
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There are four of them: the pistol-toting medic with the silver hair, the Goth techy idly cradling an energy pistol, the tiny woman in big boots slapping a plank of wood in her fist, and the sharp-talking shotgunner. |
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The dredges consisted of metal nets attached to a wooden plank and dragged across the sea floor. |
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He wrestled Archie inside and got him and the buffalo robe onto the plank bunk, then put the stovepipe together and jammed it up through the roof hole. |
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When the turves are laid, firm them down gently by laying a plank on top of them and tapping it with a rubber mallet or the back of a rake. |
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The west rail head on the field side, adjacent to the split plank, was found with a number of batter marks that appeared to trail off towards the gauge side of the west rail head. |
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This is a key plank in the opening up of the financial services market. |
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Then when the government brought Parliament back with the new throne speech, it announced to great trumpeting and chest beating that tackling crime would be a major plank in its policy, its agenda and action plan. |
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Solid walls include brick, concrete block, log and wood plank. |
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Yet whether we replace every last plank at one go or gradually over a hundred years makes no logical difference to the fact that each part of the boat has been renewed. |
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Another plank was the construction of a transcontinental railway, which made settlement possible, carried goods and machinery to farmers, and delivered the crops to eastern markets. |
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However, in order to compress the overall depth even more, other solutions were developed in which the steel member is embedded within the depth of the pre-cast plank. |
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This is why it is crucial to initiate a global system of governance for agriculture based on a new central plank that would include all international institutions concerned by agricultural issues. |
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Use the plank as a stage for seasonal produce, such as plums, pears, apples, figs, and pattypan squash. |
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The depicted ships, most likely represent sewn plank built canoes used for warfare, fishing and trade. |
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Shipbuilding improved with the use of the rib and plank method rather than the old Roman system of mortise and tenon. |
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The handing over of monetary policy to the Bank had been a key plank of the Liberal Democrats' economic policy since the 1992 general election. |
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Often the ships, also known as Guineamen, transported hundreds of slaves, who were chained tightly to plank beds. |
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Thousands of rock carvings depict ships, most probably representing sewn plank built canoes for warfare, fishing and trade. |
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Not long after I started working for him, Burl asked me to figure out the maximum load that a plank of the plenum floor in a grain drying bin would hold. |
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The keel was a flattened plank about twice as thick as a normal strake plank but still not strong enough to withstand the downwards thrust of a mast. |
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The service completed, Father Kinlough straddled the plank and rested his back against the ladder the better to enjoy the cigarette a shaftman proffered him. |
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He's even taken it back to the Haida Nation, the tribes that live in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, where cedar plank houses were built perhaps for millennia. |
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The ship had a light keel plank but pronounced stem and stern deadwood. |
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Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming. |
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The toboggan may be described as a flat plank turned up at one end. |
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They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank. |
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The frames had been adzed to remove the sharp angle of a land, or notch, which originally housed the edge of the clinker plank. |
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In Britain and America, material was available in timber form, as plank, deals, board, and scantling. |
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His clothes were rags, as was the satchel he carried, and he was boarding the third class plank. |
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At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank. |
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With most brands of laminate flooring, the joints are glued with specially formulated, water-resistant, glue placed between the tongue and grooves of every plank. |
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The sandal is pictured in cartoon-form against the New York skyline on a wheeled plank, held up by wires emerging from the ground. |
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The exercises carried on with the plank, then sprints again, followed by a mountain climb and back to my favourite, burpees. |
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